Knowmads are nomadic knowledge workers–creative, imaginative, innovative and able to work with almost anybody, anytime and anywhere. The office as we know it is gone. Schools will follow next. Join us as we explore future directions for education and what it will take to redesign education in a Knowmad Society.

1. Redesigning the
future of education in
Knowmad Society
!
John Moravec, Ph.D.
@moravec john@educationfutures.com

2. As we were saying…

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4. No matter where you
go, there you are.
!
– Buckaroo Banzai –

5. No matter where you
go, there you are.
!
– Buckaroo Banzai –

7. Agricultural &
industrial society
1.0

8. ca·reer [kuh-reer]
–noun
!
1.
an occupation or profession, esp. one
requiring special training, followed as
one’s lifework.

9. Your job was your work.

11. hn
Jo

12. Knowledge Society
2.0

15. ca·reer [kuh-reer]
–noun
!
2.
a person’s progress or general course of
action through life or through a phase of
life, as in some profession or undertaking.

16. Now we have many jobs.

19. hn
Jo

20. Knowmad Society
3.0

21. # of us
% of population with access
The future is already here —
it is just unevenly distributed.
– William Gibson –
Past
Past
Future
Future

22. 1. Accelerating change
2.Continuing globalization
3. Innovation society fueled by
knowmads

23. Paradigm
Domain
Fundamental
relationships
1.0
2.0
Knowmadic
Complex
Complex creative
(teleological)
Heterarchic
Intentional, selforganizing
Relationships of parts Mechanical
Holographic
Synergetic
Worldview
Deterministic
Indeterminate
Design
Causality
Linear
Mutual
Anticausal
Conceptualization of
order
Simple
Hierarchic
Change process
Assembly
Morphogenic
Creative
destruction
Reality
Objective
Perspectival
Contextual
Place
Local
Globalizing
Globalized

26. Knowmads
• Can be anybody, at any age
• Leverage personal
knowledge
• Contextually apply what
they know
• Motivated to collaborate
• Purposively use new
technologies
• Share what they know
• Learn, unlearn, and adopt
new ideas as necessary
• Thrive in non-hierarchical
organizations
• Learn continuously
• Are not afraid of failure

28. ca·reer [kuh-reer]
–noun
!
3.
depreciated.

29. Invent your work.

31. I want to be different,
like everybody else
I want to be like.
!
– John S. Hall (King Missile) –

32. Credit: NASA

33. Knowmads stand out.
!
And so should you.

38. You

39. Us

40. So what?

41. 1.0 schools cannot
teach 3.0 kids.

42. How we’ll get there:
Five approaches

43. 1. Focus on soft skills.

44. Explicit
+
Tacit
=
Personal
knowledge

45. 2. Create new ecologies.

46. 3. Reinvent our relationships
with technologies.

47. 4. Develop a systems
approach.

48. Mode I
Mode II
Mode III
Interventions
Attitudes
Systems-based
Vectors
Beliefs
Core-transformative
Quick hacks
Trendy ideas
Revolutions
Easy to sell
Easy to sell
Hard to sell
Easy to implement
Hard to implement
Really hard to implement
Easy to measure
Harder to measure
Really hard to measure

49. Mode I
Mode II
Mode III
Laptops, iPads, etc.
Design thinking
Invisible learning
Testing
EduPunk
Democratic education
Common Core/Standards
Professional learning
communities
Critical pedagogy
STEM
Creativity
Unschooling
Longer school year
Co-working/co-learning
Nearly all edutech startups
Early childhood education*

50. 5. Break the rules.

51. Vision

52. Education is
particularly resistant
to change because its
whole purpose is to
preserve the past.
ANYA KAMENETZ

53. 1.0 schools cannot
teach 3.0 kids.

56. It seems as if it is time
for a revolution or
innovation. What we
really need is an
innovution!
Ronald van den Hoff

57. Innovute!

58. Minnevate!
minnevate.mnasa.org

59. KnowmadSociety.com
!
John Moravec, Ph.D.
@moravec john@educationfutures.com